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Issue Position: Rural Energy Savings Program (RESP)

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2020
Issues: Energy

It took some time, but Jim Clyburn's Rural Energy Savings Program (RESP) became the law of the land in 2014. RESP allows the nation's Rural Electric Cooperatives to make loans to their members to increase the energy efficiency of their homes.

Although new to the country, this program is not new to South Carolina. Several years earlier South Carolina's rural electric co-ops determined that many of their members could realize tremendous savings on their utility bills by retrofitting their homes. A pilot program proved such to be the case.

It occurred to Congressman Clyburn that this South Carolina innovation should be codified so it could be broaden in the State and exported throughout the nation. The customers repay the loans on their monthly utility bills, and most of them realize significant monthly savings.

Jim is working to expand RESP and develop a similar program to make broadband more available in rural communities throughout the country.


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